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Restoration work on the western facade of the Parthenon has been completed, the Culture Ministry announced on Thursday, after the last pieces of scaffolding were removed from the external facade.

A painting at a thrift store in New York caught Helene Plotkin's eye. She paid less than $100 for the painting and took it home. It hung on her wall for decades, until last December, when her son became curious about the painting's origins.

Germany is returning a painting by Friedrich von Amerling to its rightful owners. The work, "Portrait of a Young Man," is to be restituted to the heirs of the Jewish antiquarian and art dealer Jacques Rosenthal and his wife Emma, ​​as announced by the Bavarian State Painting Collections in Munich. 

Long before tarot became shorthand for fortune-telling, it was a painter's commission. The earliest surviving decks, produced for the Visconti and Sforza families of Milan around the 1440s, were luxury objects: hand-painted, gilded, and burnished by court artists for an aristocratic clientele.

Art Basel announced Paula Cooper Gallery as the first recipient of the inaugural Art Basel Gallery Legacy Award. 

London Museum announced it will open the doors to its new permanent galleries in Smithfield’s General Market on 26 November 2026, marking a new chapter for the world’s largest city museum.

Former director of the Mariupol Museum has been served with a notice of suspicion under the procedural guidance of the Donetsk Regional Prosecutor’s Office.

The 2026 Film London Jarman Award shortlist invites us to step back, look again and change our point of view. The shortlisted artists present work that is brave, poetic and uniquely experimental in its approach. Storytelling, family relationships and oral histories intertwine with home movies, archival footage and abstract images in works that explore migration, identity, and intergenerational trauma.

With Back Again, at White Cube Bermondsey, Georg Baselitz returns once more to his own history.

A Russian artist known for critisizing Russian President Putin was shot dead in Poland on Monday in what Polish media are describing as a possible "execution-style" killing.

A total of £1.6 million, formed of £800,000 from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and £800,000 matched by arts access charity Art Explora, will be used to build a state-of-the-art vehicle and tour three national collections per year, including the Government Art Collection (GAC).

Officials have said that Russia has struck the 11th century Dormition Cathedral in Kyiv Pechersk Lavea, one of the holiest sites in eastern Europe.

Tate Modern unveiled gadzi, an original installation by nora chipaumire, the recipient of the Infinities Commission 2026, a free to attend annual commission showcasing the limitless experimentation of contemporary art. 

The Frank Bowling Foundation launches formally on 24 June 2026 as a registered charity dedicated to expanding public access to art education and to the work of one of Britain’s most significant painters.

Wanting to try a hands-on creative project is one thing, but actually standing in a craft store aisle looking at walls of blank canvases, rows of mysterious jars, and dozens of different brushes can feel incredibly intimidating.

There is something undeniably captivating about an oil painting on canvas—the way light catches the texture of brushstrokes, the luminous depth of layered pigments, and the sense that you are witnessing a conversation between artist and material that has unfolded over hours, days, or even weeks.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York returned two artefacts to Cambodia this week after the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office exposed their links to a smuggling ring.

In an era increasingly dominated by speed, digital immediacy, and visual excess, Bulgarian contemporary artist TEON (Teodora Nikolova) offers a radically different experience—one rooted in contemplation, memory, and the silent traces of human existence.

British artist David Hockney has died at 88, his PR agent said on Friday. Hockney was one of the most influential artists of the 20th and 21st centuries known for his vivid use of colour in paintings depicting scenes from California, Normandy and the UK.

Sotheby’s will stage a landmark exhibition and sale of masterpieces from the renowned Lewis Collection in London.